Qualifications:

Diploma of Agriculture
Certified Property Valuer
API Member No. 62079
Real Estate Agent
Fellow of Australian Property Institute
Fellow of Real Estate Institute of Australia

Hugh McLean

I have over 50 years experience in Property Valuations having commenced my career in Valuations with the Victorian Government Valuation Branch as a Cadet Rural Valuer in the Wimmera Region before being offered a position with the Commonwealth Development Bank as a Valuer and Agricultural Economist. In this position I mainly worked in Victoria with stints in Queensland when Brisbane office had extra workloads due to droughts or flooding.

The Bank then transferred me to Queensland to take up the position of District Rural Officer for the whole of South West Queensland, a very challenging position and based in Roma some 730 kilometres from Brisbane. The area I was in charge of was approximately twice the size of Victoria. 

Due to family circumstances, I resigned and returned to Victoria to take up the position of Deputy City Valuer for the City of Moorabbin with responsibility for North and Cheltenham wards, some 20,000 valuations to be done in two years.

At the end of the contract, I purchased a Real Estate Agency in Mornington and established my own Valuation Practice which I have continued to run until the present time along with my Real Estate Agencies in Mornington, Mentone and Highett.

The Valuation Practice has covered all aspects of valuation both Residential, Commercial, Industrial and Rural including Mortgage Valuations, Rental Determinations, Court Valuations for Family, Supreme and County Court as well as Rural Valuations, specialising in Poultry Farm Valuations. The Poultry farm valuations were done mainly for Rabobank with Valuations in Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia.

In June 2022, my company merged with GVS Property Australia to provide increased and improved services to our clients.